Educational Programs'S ARCHIVE

Last summer was the first year of the Joyce and William O’Neil Stewards Program. This is a summer internship program for college students endowed for the next four years by the Joyce C. and William C. O’Neil Charitable Trust. The first year of the program was a resounding success for both the stewardship of Land […]

As of the close of the 2015/2016 school year, The North Shore Land Alliance Long Island Water Education Program in local schools has, in its two short years, reached 2,400 students at 17 local schools within nine school districts across Long Island. Little did we dream when we launched the three session program in fall of 2014 that it would […]

In June of 2016, thanks to a generous five-year endowment from the Joyce C. and William C. O’Neil Charitable Trust, North Shore Land Alliance launched an official internship program. The program, modeled after the Student Conservation Association, is called the Joyce and William O’Neil Steward Program. Through this new program these interns, who were selected […]

The North Shore Land Alliance, in partnership with Suffolk County, the Town of Huntington, New York State, The Conservation Fund and the local community, acquired the 32-acre DeForest Williams property (now known as Wawapek), in March of 2015. Three months after closing, the Land Alliance opened Wawapek, formerly a private estate, as a public, passive use […]

Education is a core part of the Land Alliance’s mission. It is integral to helping community members understand the benefits associated with the preservation of Long Island’s land and waters and the important role land conservation plays in ensuring a healthy quality of life. With nearly 3 million residents in Nassau and Suffolk Counties completely […]

Our educational programming has been building for some time. Through our outreach, educational panel discussions and our Walks in the Woods, the Land Alliance has felt the need to have a stronger presence in local schools. At the same time, there is increasing recognition that Long Island’s water is perhaps our community’s most precious and possibly most vulnerable […]